An amazing panel of speakers responsible for the Center for Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit spoke about the new enhancements of ALM components. This will include out of the box Azure DevOps pipelines and GitHub Workflow templates to help set you up for success with working with solutions.
Power Platform
Mohammed does an awesome job of explaining how Power BI can be leveraged to understand the “What”, “Why”, “What Will” (predictive), and “How” for Data Analytics. I like the way he breaks these down with examples of Power BI visual tools to use. He has a LOT more videos on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/TAIK18
With the December 2020 release of Power BI Desktop we got an early christmas present. A loooong waited feature that will change how we build Power BI solutions! The feature is called “DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services” also known as Composite Models Gen2.
Power BI can represent an intimidating transformation in the way many teams still interact with their data. When well-wielded, we’ve seen Power BI be a catalyst for adoption of data-driven decision-making in a number of our clients’ organizations. This session will center around lessons learned from working with a number of Fortune 500 companies, including: conversations that build trust and consensus at each step of implementation, tips and tricks for building reports for many different typesof audiences, and ideas for keeping solutions relevant and actionable.
This session gives you an overview how Microsoft Power BI can be deployed. The Focus is on the Cloud, Hybrid and on Premises. After the session you will have an idea which type should be the best for each scenario, because every project has different requirements. So there is no right or bad way – it depends on the project and also on the budget and some other regularities.
This “how-to” blog will show you the steps needed to set up Power Automate to generate dynamic documents for Dynamics 365
Microsoft Power Apps is a great option for businesses, as it’s a Low-Code Application Platform (LCAP) that makes it easy for professional and amateur developers to create apps. The average cost of developing an application is 74% less with Power Apps, as it’s an excellent way to save yourself a lot of time and money.
Users with various technical expertise levels can develop apps to focus on specific business functions, whether it’s related to IT, sales, finance, customer management, HR, etc.
In this session, we’ll show you how easy it can be to mistakenly create what seems to be a useful dashboard in Excel or Power BI, but isn’t truly relevant due to poor data management. Then we’ll walk through best practices and tools for effective data organization and governance processes so you can ensure you’ll always walk away with what are helpful, accurate dashboards that will drive competitive, stellar results.
Hi, my name is Shane, and I am obsessed with PowerApps. That has led to me working on 100’s of Power Apps with people across the globe. In this session, I am going to share with you my lessons learned along the way. Things like building focused apps, my process for working on apps, how to choose data sources, the key factors around images, where Power Automate fits, and more. I will even cover my “never” list of things I don’t do in Power Apps.
Heidi walks through a step-by-step on how to add a new system view to Dynamics 365 using Power Apps.
This demo-packed webinar will load, analyze and process Star Wars data into streamlined business processes that combine the Power Platform and AI to generate actionable insights. We cover the art of the possible and gain the Force of a Power Platform Jedi!
Access session resources here: https://datachant.com/2019/05/30/be-a-power-platform-jedi-pbiusergroup-webinar/”
Looking at ways to improve email workflow for employee training was a top priority for the City of White Rock. This small to mid-size organization needed to find a way to automate and simplify daily business processes.
Let’s face it — building a great dashboard is daunting. Getting people to use it is even more terrifying. After launching 600+ dashboards for some of the largest brands in the world, join me as we take you through our top 10 lessons learned. I’ll teach how to change your traditional UAT (user attack testing) session from boring to winning!
Are you having performance issues in your Dynamics 365 instance? Long running plugins and/or custom workflow activities? Have you embraced PowerApps and are wondering how to reuse your custom code? Azure Functions are here for you! Join us for a hands-on session on how to get the best out the Functions and the Power Platform together.
Learn how to combine the power of Microsoft Power Platform – PowerApps and Flow – with Azure Cognitive Services’ Computer Vision to create sophisticated line of business applications for your enterprise. The following topics are covered: – Canvas applications in PowerApps – Microsoft Flow – Setting up Azure Cognitive Services’ Computer Vision
It’s easy to get started with Power BI, but it’s also easy to end up with an out of control data model that grinds report visuals to a halt. How can you find and fix the problems slowing down performance?
We’ll show you common pitfalls to avoid, along with handy tools to help you maintain and optimize your models, whether you created them yourself or inherited them from others. You’ll leave this session armed with the tools and knowledge you need to improve the performance, organization, and readability of your models, and monitor for the future to prevent angry calls!
Session Level: Intermediate
Do you have critical customer data in multiple databases? Are you looking to consolidate true customer profiles and use machine learning capabilities to drive predictive sales, marketing, or service? This ‘CI in 60’ session will give you the ins and outs of using Customer Insights across multiple data sources, as well as provide a glimpse into the power Customer Insights provides organizations of any size.
The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.
Running late for a meeting and wished there was an easier way to let your team know?
Want to check-in and check-out without having to access a mobile app?
Or track your mileage without having to do to many clicks?
We live in a cloud-first, mobile-first technology world and hence there must be a better and faster way to get things done, correct?
Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP who will walk you through how you can leverage the Power Automate button feature to provide elegant solutions. He will walk you through how you can use the virtual and physical buttons.
Session Level: Basic
Extending Microsoft Teams to not only bring collaborative tools to your company or project team but also to utilize and build off of the Power Platform’s offerings to automate mundane tasks as well as enhance communications across departments, teams, or any other groups working together on common or different workstreams every day. Session Level: Intermediate
Are you still writing your plugins from scratch, simply implementing the IPlugin interface?Are you using someone else’s framework, that isn’t really designed for the way you code?Have you tried all the open source alternatives and still not found any favorite?Why not Build your own Plugin Base class?!It’s not hard, it doesn’t take weeks, and it helps you just the way you want it to help In this session I will show you 100% hands on how we can go from zero to plugin base hero for you and your team.We will start with a project with few plugins, identify common/duplicated code, unnecessarily verbose code and code where we simply feel that “this could be done so much easier with a little help”.From this we will create a Plugin Base Class and some useful extension methods to SDK classes to finally clean up our plugins and enjoy the beauty of our refactored code.The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.